The issue stirred up a hornet’s nest of parental indignation in 2013, when Malaysian Airlines, Thai Airways, AirAsia and Singapore-based Scoot all introduced reserved seating.

“No offence to our young guests or those travelling with them — you still have the rest of the aircraft,” Scoot CEO Campbell Wilson said at the time.

According to Jeff Edwards of Flyer Talk, the idea of adult-only cabins seemed ready to take the industry by storm, but it caused a logistic nightmare for airlines faced with policing seats in cases of delay, cancellation and changed bookings.

He described the idea as “more of a passing fad than a revolution in air travel”.

It’s no secret most people hate travelling next to children.

In a study commissioned by British booking company LateDeals.co.uk in 2014, almost 70 per cent of respondents said they’d like to see child-free areas on planes.

About a quarter said kid-free zones should be compulsory on long-haul flights, and nearly a third said quiet rows were necessary to ensure stress-free travels for non-parenting passengers.

Thirty-five per cent said they’d pay more to travel on an entirely child-free flight.

Parents were incensed.

“How would people feel if an airline touted special sections excluding people for similarly arbitrary reasons?” parent Matt Villano wrote for Parenting.com in 2012.

“I can almost envision the day JetBlue reserves four rows for people with less than two per cent body-fat ... suck it up! We family travelers have every right to fly with our kids, and we’ll be damned if we let [you] take that away from us.”

The other side fired back.

“It’s not that they don’t like kids. They just don’t like bad parents,” Keli Goff wrote on the topic for the Huffington Post in 2013.

“If someone is willing to pay for extra legroom for a more comfortable seat, and that same someone is also willing to pay for a child-free cabin to increase the likelihood of enjoying a quieter seat, but your superior opinion is that your kids are adorable and every person should be forced to see them as adorable too, and therefore should have to sit near your kids whether a person wants to or not, that would make you ... what’s the word? Could it be ‘intolerant’?”

Debate continues to rage on social media.

#childfreeflights has to happen, I'd be 100% willing to pay more just to not have to sit 6 hours straight next to a crying kid.